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Saitō Musashibō Benkei, a Japanese warrior who is said to have killed in excess of 300 trained soldiers by himself while defending a bridge. He was so fierce in close quarters that his enemies were forced to kill him with a volley of arrows. He died standing upright.

In 1504 a German knight named Götz von Berlichingen lost his right arm when enemy cannon fire forced his own sword against him. He had two mechanical hands made for him, capable of holding a shield to a feathered pen. He was then known as Götz of the Iron Hand.

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1. During WW2, there was an Australian dog whose hearing was so acute that it could warn air force personnel of incoming Japanese planes 20 minutes before they came and before they showed up on radar. He could also differentiate the sounds between allied and enemy planes

2. Leo Major, a French Canadian soldier in WWII, singlehandedly liberated the Dutch town of Zwolle from an occupying German force, killing and capturing dozens of enemy soldiers in the process.

3. Hans-Ulrich Rudel is the only person to be awarded the "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds", the highest a soldier could achieve; he flew 2,530 combat missions and was shot down or forced to land 32 times, several times behind enemy lines.

4. That, between 1907 and 1922, American-born women who married non-citizens automatically lost American citizenship. In 1917, hundreds of American women who had married German men were forced to register with the government as 'enemy aliens'.

5. The "Harlem Hellfighters" were the first African American regiment in WWI who were assigned to the French forces. None were captured, never lost a trench, or a foot of ground to the enemy. They returned to the U.S. as one of the most successful regiments of World War I

6. During WWII the Allied forces would drop clouds of thin strips of aluminum foil from aircraft to overwhelm enemy radar in a countermeasure known as “Window.”

7. The word "quisling", or a person who collaborates with an enemy occupying force, is derived from a man named Vidkun Quisling, who headed a domestic Nazi collaborationist regime in Norway during the Second World War. His name is now synonymous with the word "traitor".

8. 21-year-old Lieutenant Zvika Greengold, an Israeli tank officer who fought in the Yom Kippur War for 30 hours straight, destroyed up to 60 enemy tanks (swapping his own every time he sustained damage), and fooled the Syrians into believing they were facing a company sized force.

9. During a war game conducted by US military, a retired general commanding a simulated enemy forces manages to incurred significant losses to US navy. The game were then reset and rule modified mid-game to force a US victory.

10. The all black 369th regiment of the American Expeditionary force in WW1 was called the "Harlem Hellfighters" "due to their toughness and that they never lost a man through capture, lost a trench or a foot of ground to the enemy."

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A 21yo Alexander the Great was once surrounded by Greek tribes on hill positions, low on food. He ordered his men to conduct formation drills, in complete silence. With the enemy units engrossed in the weird spectacle, his forces roared and charged, taking the hills, the tribes fleeing in terror

The Americans considered creating a "Gay Bomb" that would release hormones in an attempt to cause all the enemy forces to become attracted to each other. They were looking into alternative forms of chemical warfare at the time. - source

The Supreme Court ruled in 1898 there are only three exceptions to birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment: Those born from foreign leaders or diplomats, on foreign public ships, and from hostile enemy forces occupying US territory. - source

In WW2 the US and Canada banned postal chess (a form of chess where players play by marking a card and mailing it from one to another, in which games take months or years) as they were worried that the games "were being used to send secret messages to enemy forces."

The Battle of Los Angeles occurred in 1942 when a blackout was issued for LA due to a rumored enemy air raid. Thought to be an attacking force from Japan, 1,400 rounds were spent shooting at a weather balloon and the event indirectly killed 5 people. - source

The "Harlem Hellfighters" were the first African-American regiment to serve with the American Expenditionary Forces during WW1. They never lost a trench, a man through capture, or a foot of ground to the enemy.

During the Gulf War, when faced with extensive trenches of Iraqi soldiers American forces decided to simply use combat earthmovers and bury the enemy soldiers alive

Wright Laboratory won the 2007 Ig Noble Peace Prize for "instigating research & development on a chemical weapon" called 'The Gay Bomb' it was a bomb that when used, discharges female sex pheromones over enemy forces in order to make them sexually attracted to each other.

In WW2, Allied forces landed on Kiska Island, which had been occupied by Japan, who secretly abandoned the island two weeks prior, and so the Allied landings were unopposed. Despite this, after over two days in thick fog, U.S. and Canadian forces mistook each other for the enemy.

Virginia Hall, a UK Special Ops agent in World War II who helped train Resistance forces behind enemy lines & who the Gestapo called "the most dangerous of all Allied spies" -- despite being an amputee from a hunting accident & using an artificial foot she nicknamed "Cuthbert"